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Hackers have poor nations' PCs in their sights

By Michael Reilly

12 December 2007

Remember the Love Bug? “ILOVEYOU” was the subject line of an email that filled 45 million inboxes in 2000, as the computer virus it carried manically mailed itself around the planet.

The Love Bug deleted pictures and music and slowed computers to a crawl as it sent copies of itself to everyone in the victim’s contacts file. While the attack lives long in the memory of those affected by it, the fate of the perpetrator does not – and for a very good reason: he got away with it.

Despite an admission of guilt by Filipino hacker Onel de Guzman and…

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